Patriot Act infringes on civil liberties, allows for privacy invasion
Posted by TrevorLyman on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 23:53
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In response to the recent figures that put this current war at costing billions of dollars, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz recently remarked, "For a fraction of the cost of this war we could have put Social Security on a sound footing for the next half-century or more."
To describe this phenomenal cost, New York Times author Bob Herbert declared that this spending was like a "cancer inside the American economy."
I would like to contend that this war is not only a cancer to our economy but even more disastrous, a cancer to our civil liberties and freedoms as American citizens.
To illustrate this, one need only take a look at the Patriot Act, passed barely a month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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